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Family violence occurs for various reasons. However, its effects are non-selective and manifest in the children, the family unit, and the community at large. Child abuse is one of the forms of family violence. Child abuse can manifest through the physical, emotional and sexual abuse or neglect by the parents or caregivers. Lamont (2010) underscores the fact that child abuse amounts to a public and social problem. Child abuse results in adverse consequences during the childhood phase and through adolescence. In addition to the perspectives above, the author also explores the different forms of child abuse, the factors that ...

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Throughout history many battles and wars have been fought, but many people and societies never realized that there are other effects on the soldiers and other victims apart from the physical effect. To this end it has been observed that mental effect is another result of the war with several researchers dedicating their time to look at the phenomenon in detail. Though a number of soldiers have had the strife of facing these difficulties which remained in continuity for the rest of their lives, it has been found that they have only recently received their answers along with the ...

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Group therapy has its origins in 1905 when J.H Pratt was treating tuberculosis patients. He noted the positive effects of the instruction classes on the patient’s emotional states. Triggant Burrow in 1925 got impatient with individual therapy and began group therapy. He wanted to decrease the authority of the therapist in the sessions and increase interpersonal interactions. Paul Schilder and Louis Wender in the 1930s found group therapy to be effective in the treatment of prison inmates and discharged mental patients. After World War 2, many of the soldiers were treated successfully using group therapy. Over the years ...